[NU Sports] You are kidding. Right?

[Dennis W. Brandt]

Was C. J. Bacher that much better today, or did Michigan State just not give a damn for a long while?  It was probably a little bit of the former and one whopping amount of the latter.  Once MSU started caring, Bacher vanished along with the offensive line.
  Once again, the pass rush from the defensive line was nonexistent.  Someone no doubt will grouse that it was because we only rushed three for so long.  What difference did it make?  We rushed three, four, five six. . .  Hell, the entire student body could have charged the field, and we still would not have sacked Stanton.  WE HAVE NO TALENT ON THE DEFENSIVE LINE!  WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME?  We don't have any great cover men in the secondary, but their problems began with the front four.

  Once again - once too DAMN many times - our special teams SUCKED!  Year after mournful year we are forced to watch kickoffs go out of bounds, field goals get missed, punts get blocked or hardly go anywhere, and kick returners go nowhere.  Special teams was strong reason the '95 team succeeded, the Miami of Ohio debacle notwithstanding.

  Once again, we blew opportunity after opportunity to put this game away, then just stood at the bottom of the mountain once the avalanche started and watched it to crash down on us.

  A game that could have made this a worthwhile year has instead probably utterly destroyed it and no doubt will have a detrimental effect on recruiting.